Photography is an important means of documenting wound assessment. But written or oral consent is an important yet neglected area of wound photography. Ideally, oral consent for routine wound photography should be given, and be documented as being given, on the wound assessment chart by nurses in the clinical environment. For medical photographers and specialist nurses who may use the photographs for other reasons such as teaching and publication, written signed consent should be required on a special consent form kept in the medical case notes by the photographer concerned.WITA follows best practice techniques in wound assessment and have implemented steps and procedures that take patient photo consent into consideration.
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